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Wish list for future iOS updates
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What part of iOS would make a dark mode? I'm pretty sure it's up to the developers on how they choose to display their app. It's not just a switch Apple can make. The white elements are part of the design language. OS X doesnt really even have a dark mode, it only switches the dock and menu bar black, the apps dont even take affect.
And since they cant just make a switch but if they do, it's going to be inconsistent across all apps. If youre talking about making the UI white to black.
Well, they have some features like that in Yosemite, they also have features like that when it comes to jailbroken phones, so it's certainly possible. Sure, there might be some inconsistencies within what apps specify, but seems like those things can be addressed in some fashion as well if this was actually a real feature that would be added to iOS (not to mention that even if some inconsistencies existed for some time, it would still be better than nothing since the OS itself would be in a dark mode and probably various apps as well anyway). So, it's likely not just an addition and flip of a simple switch and that's it, but it also doesn't appear that it can't be done.
YES Profiles would be awesome. When I leave home, I turn Wifi off, silent on etc, then when I get home, wifi has to go back, other settings get changed etc. Even if it was just a toggle in control centre, being able to have settings profiles would save a lot of time.
Customisable control centre would be great! I currently use launcher and its fantastic and a big time saver.
A proper implantation of iCloud Drive would be great. I know that iOS 9 adds a dedicated app + mail attachment, but what about saving to iCloud drive from various apps, such as safari and mail or uploading files from iCloud drive through safari.
Backup and restore individual apps! Please Please Please Please Please Please (times 1000). My iPhone 5 has been replaced twice under warranty for terrible battery, and now that the battery problems exist, they say the solution is to restore and start again as my software is corrupt. That is not a bloody solution, as I don't want to loose my years of iMessages and years of saved app data. All I want to do is to be able to restore certain app data but not others, because now I either choose loosing precious data or my battery life, and sadly my battery life has been the sacrifice. I can think of countless other scenarios where this would help as well.
Uninstall certain iOS apps. I mean really, iBooks, Tips, Podcasts etc.... They surely use up room, and being on a 16 GB device....
Backup to time machine - Having to connect to my computer for backup, which uses a heck of a lot of space on my laptop is plain annoying, in addition to the bother of having to de-authorise computers so I can backup apps from various accounts. I'm not trusting my backups to the cloud (which also takes a long time) So backing up to the time machine would save a lot of aggravation and disk space and time.
Learners mode/ interface customisation: I'm slowly teaching my (never used a computer before) grandparents an iPad. Currently they can manage reading emails + answering facetime calls which is great. However, they're constantly accidentally getting onto the second page of apps, brining up control centre or brining down notification centre etc, so disabling things would make the iPad a lot easier for both young and old who are learning to use an iPad or iPhone.
Music App customisation - I like Apple music, but would like to choose what goes on the music bottom row, so that I could put albums, artists and playlists back there, instead of connect and new for example.
Weather and calculator for iPad - I mean come on Apple, I have 3rd party apps for this on my iPad and would like enhanced versions of the iPhone variants of these apps, on my iPad.
There are more things I'd love but I can't think of, off the top of my head.
Customisable control centre would be great! I currently use launcher and its fantastic and a big time saver.
A proper implantation of iCloud Drive would be great. I know that iOS 9 adds a dedicated app + mail attachment, but what about saving to iCloud drive from various apps, such as safari and mail or uploading files from iCloud drive through safari.
Backup and restore individual apps! Please Please Please Please Please Please (times 1000). My iPhone 5 has been replaced twice under warranty for terrible battery, and now that the battery problems exist, they say the solution is to restore and start again as my software is corrupt. That is not a bloody solution, as I don't want to loose my years of iMessages and years of saved app data. All I want to do is to be able to restore certain app data but not others, because now I either choose loosing precious data or my battery life, and sadly my battery life has been the sacrifice. I can think of countless other scenarios where this would help as well.
Uninstall certain iOS apps. I mean really, iBooks, Tips, Podcasts etc.... They surely use up room, and being on a 16 GB device....
Backup to time machine - Having to connect to my computer for backup, which uses a heck of a lot of space on my laptop is plain annoying, in addition to the bother of having to de-authorise computers so I can backup apps from various accounts. I'm not trusting my backups to the cloud (which also takes a long time) So backing up to the time machine would save a lot of aggravation and disk space and time.
Learners mode/ interface customisation: I'm slowly teaching my (never used a computer before) grandparents an iPad. Currently they can manage reading emails + answering facetime calls which is great. However, they're constantly accidentally getting onto the second page of apps, brining up control centre or brining down notification centre etc, so disabling things would make the iPad a lot easier for both young and old who are learning to use an iPad or iPhone.
Music App customisation - I like Apple music, but would like to choose what goes on the music bottom row, so that I could put albums, artists and playlists back there, instead of connect and new for example.
Weather and calculator for iPad - I mean come on Apple, I have 3rd party apps for this on my iPad and would like enhanced versions of the iPhone variants of these apps, on my iPad.
There are more things I'd love but I can't think of, off the top of my head.
Honestly, I just would like iOS to be great again. What I mean by that is no lag, no crashes, no bugs.. The thought-trough software and care for the tiniest detail made Apple so amazing, at least for me.
Since iOS 8.4 there hasn't been a day without at least one of the above.. It feels like a beta and it boggles my mind. Music in particular might be one of the most unstable apps I've ever seen from the company. Where is the quality control?
I really feel like Apple works on too much atm and the quality takes a lot of hits because of that. I would gladly exchange all of these little features since iOS 5 (of course with a few exceptions) and get back the stable OS.
Since iOS 8.4 there hasn't been a day without at least one of the above.. It feels like a beta and it boggles my mind. Music in particular might be one of the most unstable apps I've ever seen from the company. Where is the quality control?
I really feel like Apple works on too much atm and the quality takes a lot of hits because of that. I would gladly exchange all of these little features since iOS 5 (of course with a few exceptions) and get back the stable OS.
The text field in the Messages app says "Text Message" for an SMS (Green bubble) and "iMessage" for iMessages (Blue bubble) before you type anything.
THIS! SO MUCH THIS! Hands-free Siri is completely useless if I need to physically interact with the phone.
I just thought of another feature: Ability to send location updates to Find My Phone at user-designated periods of time. Accuracy can be varied to preserve battery life. For example, a user could opt to have the phone send a location update once every 10 minutes, and the phone will try to keep actual GPS usage to 1 out of 3 update cycles. This would be useful for the rare case when the phone is offline due to someone having turned airplane mode on, turned the phone off, or taken the phone to an area where it doesn't get reliable Internet. If you lose your phone and it goes offline after a time when you know you had it, you can at least know where it was before it went offline. This can help you establish, for example, that you lost your phone at the restaurant where you had dinner.
Auto-shut off for Wi-Fi, several times I've left my apartment with Wi-Fi still on, only to realize it too late when my battery has been drained. After 10 mins of no Wi-Fi signal, it should turn off.
A better low-power mode that gives at least an additional 8 hours so you can text and use the phone. Android can do it, surly iOS can.
More stable, and smoother. My iPhone 6 Plus is feeling more and more like my sister's 5 with each subsequent update.
A better low-power mode that gives at least an additional 8 hours so you can text and use the phone. Android can do it, surly iOS can.
More stable, and smoother. My iPhone 6 Plus is feeling more and more like my sister's 5 with each subsequent update.
Location (or time) based ringtones. Nights and weekends I want my uptown funk ringtone to play for a call. When I'm at work, the classic ringer will do. For now, I have to settle with the boring one
OS X Yosemite and El Capitan's implementation of Dark Mode applies only to the menu bar, Dock and Spotlight. It does not affect any apps. Well if you want the same implementation in iOS since OS X has done it, only the dock will be dark…
Dark Mode in iOS arising from iOS tweaks are terribly hacky and don't work in certain apps, resulting in crashes and unusable apps, etc. If iOS were to implement it, only compatible apps (which will take up another long cycle of developer updates) will go dark. I doubt you want to enter an app that's dark and when you switch to another app it goes completely white.
There really isn't much motivation for Apple to implement Dark Mode in iOS right now. First of all, there are brightness controls and a Reduce White Point option in Accessibility. Second of all Dark Mode is not going to bring any additional battery life to the iPhone/iPad since the screens are LCD displays. Until iPhones/iPads are released with OLED screens it is unlikely iOS will ever have dark mode.
Under iOS 9 in Safari, you can upload files using iCloud Drive. In Mail you can also save attachments to iCloud Drive.
Since previous iOS versions you can do an iCloud backup and select what apps have their app data backed up. From your device, go to look for your iCloud storage usage, select your backups and choose the apps you want backed up.
Bring tap two fingers to move cursor function BACK for iPhone!
Has it been removed? When?
Good you can upload files, but can you download to iCloud Drive?
The thing is that regardless of what sort of backup you do, restoring from the backup seems to carry over some of the dodgy data... I'd like to be able to do a individual app backup and copy.
The point is that a dark mode can be implemented and won't somehow destroy the OS. Even if apps would need to support something then as has been the case with many new things that need to be supported they will eventually, with many of the more popular ones getting it sooner than later. It's certainly far from futile and useless as some might think (who would be more than free simply not to use an option such as that).
The part about Apple not caring about it enough and all that is certainly there--as it has been for things like notification center or control center or widgets or third party keyboards or many other features that weren't there for years until Apple finally brought them in...heck even something fundamentally basic like copy and paste wasn't there for a few years, and probably had some people trying to justify it in those years as something that wouldn't work well or require too much effort or whatnot. None of that speaks to how useful or popular or needed a particular feature would be (even if Apple hasn't implemented it so far and there are people who don't care about or for it).